[ NNSquad ] Peeved politicians want "loser pays" rule for patent trolls

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Peeved politicians want "loser pays" rule for patent trolls

http://j.mp/WrW5YP  (ars technica)

    Last year, the first bill that could take a bite out of the business
    model of so-called "patent trolls" was introduced. Not much happened
    with it, but today a reworked bill has been introduced by the same
    sponsors: Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR). The
    bill is called the SHIELD Act of 2013, which stands for "Saving
    High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes."  Essentially, the
    bill (PDF) creates a "loser pays" system for certain types of
    lawsuits, in which do-nothing patent holders will be forced to pay the
    defendant's legal bills if they lose their lawsuit. However, losing
    defendants won't have to pay, so it's more like a "losing plaintiff
    pays" system.

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